Department of Political Science, Columbia University, 420 W 118 St, MC 3320, New York, NY 10027 Office: (212) 854 5921 Cell: (646) 385 0804 nikhar.gaikwad@columbia.edu www.nikhargaikwad.com EMPLOYMENT 2017 Columbia University New York, NY Instructor (convertible to Assistant Professor), Department of Political Science 2016 17 Princeton University Princeton, NJ Fellow, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance 2006 10 Cornerstone Research New York, NY Analyst, Senior Analyst, Research Associate EDUCATION 2017 Yale University New Haven, CT Ph.D. Candidate (expected 2018), Political Science M.Phil., Political Science, 2012 M.A., Political Science, 2011 Fields: Political Economy, International Relations, Comparative Politics (Distinction) Stanford University Exchange Scholar (2012), Visiting Scholar (2013 15), Political Science Stanford, CA 2006 Williams College Williamstown, MA B.A., Economics and Political Science (Honors), magna cum laude Exeter College, University of Oxford Williams-Exeter Program at Oxford (2004 05), Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Oxford, UK RESEARCH INTERESTS International and Comparative Political Economy; Trade, Migration, and Environment Policymaking; Business State Relations; Political Economy of Identity; South Asian Politics PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS 2017 Gaikwad, Nikhar and Gareth Nellis. The Majority-Minority Divide in Attitudes toward Internal Migration: Evidence from Mumbai. American Journal of Political Science 61(2): 456-472 2016 Ballard-Rosa, Cameron, Allison Carnegie and Nikhar Gaikwad. Economic Crises and Trade Policy Competition. Forthcoming. British Journal of Political Science. 2013 Gaikwad, Nikhar. Presidential Prospects, Political Support, and Stock Market Performance. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 8(4): 451-464.
PAPERS UNDER REVIEW 2015 Gaikwad, Nikhar. East India Companies and Long-Term Economic Change in India. (Revise and Resubmit, International Organization.) David A. Lake Award for Best Paper, 2014 International Political Economy Society Annual Meeting. 2018 Brulé, Rachel and Nikhar Gaikwad. Culture, Capital, and the Political Economy Gender Gap: Evidence from Meghalaya s Matrilineal Tribes. Pi Sigma Alpha Award for Best Paper, 2017 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Kellogg/Notre Dame Award for Best Paper in Comparative Politics, 2017 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting. 2018 Carnegie, Allison and Nikhar Gaikwad. Public Opinion on Geopolitics and Trade Policy: Theory and Evidence. WORKING PAPERS 2018 Gaikwad, Nikhar. Identity Politics and Economic Policy. 2018 Gaikwad, Nikhar and Gareth Nellis. Do Politicians Discriminate Against Internal Migrants? Evidence from Nationwide Field Experiments in India. 2018 Gaikwad, Nikhar and Pavithra Suryanarayan. Attitudes toward Globalization in Ranked Ethnic Societies. 2018 Gaikwad, Nikhar, Veronica Herrera, and Robert Mickey. Transparency for Text-Based Sources: From Principles to Practice. OTHER PUBLICATIONS 2013 Gaikwad, Nikhar. Review of Globalization and Economic Nationalism in Asia, by Anthony P. D Costa, ed. Comparative South Asia 21(2): 172-173. CASE STUDIES AND INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS 2016 Gaikwad, Nikhar and Kenneth Scheve. Willkommen to Europe: The Political Economy of Migration Policy in Germany, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Case P-85. 2016 Gaikwad, Nikhar and Kenneth Scheve. India: Liberalize in the Face of Crisis? Stanford Graduate School of Business, Case P-86. 2016 Gaikwad, Nikhar, Kenneth Scheve and Jason Weinreb. To Grexit or Not? Politics and Greece s Sovereign Debt Crisis, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Case P-88. AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS External 2018 Pi Sigma Alpha Award for Best Paper, 2017 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2018 Kellogg/Notre Dame Award for Best Paper in Comparative Politics, 2017 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2 of 5
2017 19 Evidence in Governance and Politics, Principal Investigator, with A. Bohlken and G. Nellis ($257,921) 2016 19 Research and Empirical Analysis of Labor Migration, Principal Investigator, with R. Brulé ($51,398) 2016 17 Emerging Diversity Scholar, National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan 2015 David A. Lake Award for Best Paper, 2014 International Political Economy Society Annual Meeting 2014 15 International Growth Centre Grant, co-principal Investigator, with G. Nellis ($30,000) 2013 15 Humane Studies Fellowship ($11,000) 2014 National Science Foundation: Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models Summer Institute 2014 Adam Smith Fellowship 2012 The Tobin Project Democracy & Markets Fellowship ($1,500) 2012 Social Science Research Council: Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship ($5,000) 2006 Phi Beta Kappa Internal 2017 18 Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy Seed Grant, Principal Investigator, Columbia University ($20,000) 2018 Departmental Research Incentive Program (DRIP), Columbia University ($5,000) 2012 16 South Asian Studies Council Travel Grant, Yale University ($3,400) 2014 15 Hall-Mercer Fellowship, Yale University 2010 15 University Fellowship, Yale University 2011 15 Georg Leitner Grant in International and Comparative Political Economy, Yale University ($14,000) 2012 15 South Asian Studies Council Research Award, Yale University ($12,500) 2013 14 MacMillan Center Dissertation Research Grant, Yale University ($15,000) 2010 13 Bunker Fellowship, Yale University 2012 Institution for Social and Policy Studies Grant, co-pi with G. Nellis, Yale University ($10,000) 2012 MacMillan Center Pre-Dissertation Grant, Yale University ($5,000) 2011 Summer Language Institute Fellowship, Yale University ($6,300) 2004 06 Williams College Undergraduate Research Fellowship 2004 06 Class of 1957 Scholar, Williams College 2004 06 Class of 1960 Scholar in Economics, Williams College TEACHING 2017 Columbia University Department of Political Science, Instructor Political Science UN3648: Governing the Global Economy (Undergraduate) Political Science 8804: Colloquium on International Political Economy (Graduate) 2015 Stanford University Department of Political Science, Teaching Assistant Political Science 110: Governing the Global Economy (Undergraduate) 2013 Yale University Department of Political Science, Teaching Assistant Political Science 415: Religion and Politics (Undergraduate) 2004 06 Williams College Department of Economics, Teaching Assistant Economics 510: Econometrics (Graduate, Center for Developmental Economics) Economics 253: Empirical Economic Methods (Undergraduate) RESEARCH POSITIONS 2014 16 University of California, Berkeley, Center on the Politics of Development, Research Associate 2013 Delhi School of Economics, Center for Development Economics, Visiting Scholar 2012 13 Kenneth Scheve (Yale/Stanford), Research Assistant 2011 12 Christopher Blattman (Yale/Columbia), Research Assistant 3 of 5
INVITED PRESENTATIONS 2018 Empirical Study of Gender Research Network, Vanderbilt University (scheduled) 2018 Political Economy workshop, Texas A&M University (scheduled) 2018 Comparative Politics of Climate Change Workshop, Stanford University (scheduled) 2018 Workshop on Cities, Inequality and Electoral Politics, Princeton University 2018 International Relations Workshop, Temple University 2018 International Political Economy Speaker Series, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2018 The Political Economy of Security Conference, University of Southern California 2017 International Political Economy Workshop, McGill University 2017 Pressure Groups and IGOs Conference (Discussant), Princeton University 2017 Lansing B. Lee, Jr./Bankard Seminar in Global Politics, University of Virginia 2017 Identity and Inequality Conference (Discussant), Princeton University 2017 Christopher H. Browne Center Conference, University of Pennsylvania 2017 Book Conference for Vinícius Rodrigues Vieira (Discussant), Princeton University 2017 In the Field: Political Science Workshop, University of Rochester 2017 Program on International Politics, Economics and Security Workshop, University of Chicago 2017 International Relations Colloquium, Princeton University 2017 Research and Empirical Analysis of Labor Migration Conference, New York University, Abu Dhabi 2017 Economics and Security Reconsidered Workshop, American University 2016 India s Political Economy Workshop, Carnegie Endowment, Washington D.C. 2016 Presidential Session, Southern Economic Association, Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. 2016 Midnight s Institutions: Rethinking Political Imaginations and Institutional Change after India s Independence (1947-1960) Conference, Yale University 2016 Economics Department Colloquium, George Mason University 2015 International Relations Workshop, Yale University 2015 Leitner Political Economy Workshop, Yale University 2014 South Asia Brown Bag, Yale University 2013 The Companies: Continuity, Transition or Disjuncture? Conference, Yale University 2013 International Relations Workshop, Yale University 2013 Comparative Politics Workshop, Yale University CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS 2018 American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Boston (scheduled) 2018 Historical Political Economy Working Group, Annual Meeting, Johns Hopkins University (scheduled) 2018 Midwest Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago (scheduled) 2017 American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco 2017 Historical Political Economy Working Group, Annual Meeting, Johns Hopkins University 2017 Midwest Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago 2017 International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Baltimore 2016 International Political Economy Society, Annual Meeting, Durham 2016 American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia 2016 European Conference for South Asian Studies, Biennial Meeting, Warsaw 2016 German Economic Association, Development Economics Group Meeting, University of Heidelberg 2016 Midwest Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago 2016 Harvard Experimental Political Science Conference, Harvard University 2015 International Political Economy Society, Annual Meeting, Stanford 2015 American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco 4 of 5
2015 Alexander Hamilton Center Conference, New York University 2014 Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2014 International Political Economy Society, Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. 2014 American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. 2014 Politics and History Network Conference, Yale University 2014 Midwest Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago 2014 CHESS Graduate Student Conference, Yale University 2013 Alexander Hamilton Center Conference, New York University 2013 Midwest Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago 2013 American Politics Workshop, Yale University 2013 Center for Comparative Research Conference, Yale University 2012 International Political Economy Society, Annual Meeting, Charlottesville 2012 American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, New Orleans 2012 European Conference for South Asian Studies, Biennial Meeting, Lisbon 2012 Joint CISS/Keynote Conference, Annual Meeting, Prague 2012 Midwest Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago 2012 Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference, University of Chicago SKILLS AND TRAINING Technology: STATA, R, ArcGIS, Bloomberg, LATEX Languages: Hindi (fluent), Portuguese (intermediate), Urdu (conversational) Yale Summer Session at Pontifícia Universidade Católica: Intermediate Portuguese (2011) Fieldwork: New Delhi (2011 15), Mumbai (2012 14, 2017), Shillong (2013 14), Aizawl (2017), London (2012), Rio de Janeiro (2011 12), São Paulo (2013, 2018) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE External Reviewer: Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Contemporary South Asia, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of East Asian Studies, Comparative Economic Studies Officer: Co-Chair, with Alexandra Cirone, Historical Political Economy Working Group, American Political Science Association (2016 ) Treasurer: Asian Pacific American Caucus, American Political Science Association (2010 13) Member: Working Group on Text-Based Sources, Qualitative Transparency Deliberations, American Political Science Association s Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section (2016 2017) Evidence in Governance and Politics (2018 ) Panel Chair: International Studies Association Annual Meeting (2017) Discussant: American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (2017); Politics and History Network Annual Conference (2017); International Studies Association Annual Meeting (2017); Yale Comparative Politics Workshop (2014, 2011, 2011); Columbia Princeton Yale Historical Working Group (2015, 2013); Yale Politics, Environment and Markets Workshop (2013) Internal Advisor: Columbia University Undergraduate Honors Thesis: Peter Kalicki (2017 2018) Columbia University PhD Dissertation Reader: Lindsay Dolan, Yusuf Magiya Member: Search Committee, International Political Economy Junior Search (2017 2018) Organizer: Co-Chair, Columbia University International Politics Seminar (2017 ) The Europe Center at Stanford University, Student Organizer (2013 15) International Environmental Policymaking and Agreements Conference, Student Organizer (2011) 5 of 5